Uwe Karpa
# Uwe Karpa

Uwe Karpa (born 18 September 1945) is a German actor and voice actor.

## Acting career

He has been performing roles in theatre, film, and television since 1965. Karpa received his acting training in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He performed in theatres in, among others, Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin, Dresden, and Bad Segeberg. On television, he was particularly well known between 1996 and 2005 in the role of staff nurse Brenneke (Oberpfleger Brenneke) in the series Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP. He had his cinematic debut in 1965 in Berlin um die Ecke. In 2007 in Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex, he played the role of the police chief.

## Selected filmography

### Film

List of film appearances, with year, title, and role shown :

| Year | Title | Role |
| - | - | - |
| 1965 | Denk bloß nicht, ich heule | Bubi |
| 1988 | Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Second comrade |
| 2007 | The Baader Meinhof Complex | Police chief |
| 2012 | Der Gründer | Glenny Rosenberg |

### Television

List of television appearances, with year, title, and role shown :

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1971 | Rottenknechte | Anton Roth | multi-part television film |
| 1980 | Archiv des Todes | Patrolman | multi-part television film |
| 1988–91 | Polizeiruf 110 | Various roles | 4 episodes |
| 1993–95 | Wolffs Revier | Schröder | 3 episodes |
| 1997–2006 | Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP | Helmut Brenneke | 233 episodes |
| 2019 | SOKO Potsdam | Tänzer Erwin | 1 episode |
